Ideas: Choose Types of Ads/ Rate Ads

[jhoyer27]

I know there are a lot of folks out there that are annoyed by the advertisement selection that they are exposed to.  I am also one of them.  I have a suggestion, though I'm sure someone must have thought of this already.

Give us a thumbs-up/thumbs-down option for advertisements!  Not all advertisements are terrible, but some of them are so offensive to people that it's driving them away from your platform.  Or at the very least leading them to mute their device for a couple minutes until the ads are done playing.  I'm sure the ad payers probably don't enjoy forking over money simply to be muted and ignored by your listener base.  At the very least give them the exposure to those who are actually going to listen to them, and help them avoid those who are going to avoid them!

mod edit: changed title for clarity

[Dw557]

There are numerous occasions where I get ads that are, for lack of a better word, "offensive" and cannot do anything but turn the volume on my car down to zero. I'm incredibly frustrated getting ads for Chik-fil-a, or adult-content ads, or (rarely but not never) an ad for a church or an anti-LGBTQ politician. At this point, I'm probably going to just switch to Spotify, because it's clear by the four-year history of this request that y'all prioritize squeezing an extra tenth of a cent per listen over user experience.

Duplicating for emphasis.  May not be in my car but just as accurate.

[HDN]

hello,

there is one ad that is VERY anxiety provoking. I can’t take it anymore. It plays over and over and over and over again. What can i do to get rid of this 1 ad? I have misophonia and the Walmart ad with the coffee drinking causes me distress. There’s a McDonald’s one too! It seems to hv gone away. I want to enjoy Pandora but I don’t want a panic attack. The sound of slurping? Does that make ppl Want coffee? It makes me want to cry? 

[klmkitkat]

I am incredibly irritated with the ads on Pandora, specifically the My Pillow ad. I mute it every time it comes on which is almost every hour. I cannot stand him. I know everything is tracked and it is very clear that I hate him as well as anyone affiliated with him so I do not understand why I would get it. There needs to be a way to thumbs down ads. Maybe if an ad gets enough thumbs down, it gets removed. I understand if you don't pay for a subscription, you get ads but come on. You data mine the **ahem** out of everything so you should be capable of knowing what people are interested in. If you can't actually show me what I'm interested in, there is no reason for you to have any of my information.